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So you have no examples? What a surprise.
Believe it or not, I don't wander the fediverse with receipts for propaganda in my back pocket. If I really wanted to, I could spend a few hours putting together a response to your comment with relevant citations, but unfortunately I don't have all day to spend arguing with people on the Internet, and I didn't come here for a debate in the first place. I saw you post this:
I responded, concisely and simply, with a few examples of mainstream media acting defensively on behalf of capitalism which I suspected that most people would have personal experience of noticing themselves. I don't want to waste hours of my time on this, either accept the truth or don't. It's not my problem, it's yours.
You provided no examples. The media is a diverse spread of firms across the political spectrum, the examples you gave had examples of the opposite as well, meaning nothing was effectively hidden.